Bioinformatics For Dummies, Jean-Michel Claverie and Cedric Notredame, pp. 372, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 978-0-470-08985-9, ... Phylogenetics is a special kind of phylogeny that relies on the comparison of equivalent genes coming from several species for reconstructing the genealogic tree of these species and finding out who is the closest relative of whom in the family. If necessary, you can also apply phylogenetic methods to the various genes of a gene family to reconstruct the history of the gene family by the same means ...
Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of DiversityArchived 2014-01-03 at the वेबैक मशीन, Eric R. Pianka, pp. 12, University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24847-2, ... According to this system, groups must be monophyletic, which means that each recognized group must include an ancestor plus all of its descendants. A monophyletic group is called a "clade," and each member is a taxon ...
Life: The Science of Biology, William K. Purves, David Sadava, Gordon H. Orians, H. Craig Heller, pp. 436, Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7167-3873-2, ... If only monophyletic taxa were permitted, birds would be included with crocodilians, turtles, and their ancestors in a single taxon separate from snakes and lizards. Retaining birds as a separate class (that is, retaining reptiles as a paraphyletic group) emphasizes that brd have undergone rapid evolution since they separated from reptiles ...
Evolution of the InsectsArchived 2012-07-25 at the वेबैक मशीन, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, pp. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0, ... The most problematic groupings are polyphyletic, which are those that contain some of the descendants of a common ancestor but not the common ancestor itself ...
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of DiversityArchived 2014-01-03 at the वेबैक मशीन, Eric R. Pianka, pp. 12, University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24847-2, ... According to this system, groups must be monophyletic, which means that each recognized group must include an ancestor plus all of its descendants. A monophyletic group is called a "clade," and each member is a taxon ...
Evolution of the InsectsArchived 2012-07-25 at the वेबैक मशीन, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, pp. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0, ... The most problematic groupings are polyphyletic, which are those that contain some of the descendants of a common ancestor but not the common ancestor itself ...
